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Weekly Spiritual Infusion

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For sure the human race is now being tested. We are now seeing the culmination of centuries of actions and thoughts coming to fruition. And there are those who claim that the human race will not survive this century because our actions have become more about pleasing ourselves than looking to how they will effect the future.

I agree with those who claim this. On the whole humans have become shallow, selfish, egocentric creatures who care nothing for anything but their own gratification. Not unlike many civilizations before us that fell because of these same tendencies. We say we must learn from the past in order to not repeat it, and then we forget to remember because it is too inconvenient to do so. We disrespect and disregard the wisdom of the ages and of nature that tell us everyday the secrets of and answers to lifes's questions.

We have become arrogant in thinking that nature is owned by us when it is we who are one with it. By thinking we alone are omnipotent over all other species we have now doomed our own. This arrogance is seen daily in everything from our polluted toxic environment, to our social ills, to our wars. And yet through it all we continue to claim that such abuses to the Earth and to ourselves are in the end for our own good. We live in denial to validate the very actions leading us to our fate.

In the Gnostic faith which I believe, the Earth we now live in and perceive is a great illusion perpetrated by those who put up these materialistic distractions in order that we may never know Gnosis, the true light. And in discerning this belief one cannot help but be struck by its relevance in today's world. We treasure money more than life itself. We look upon the powerful as strong and the truthful as weak. Our climate of discourse is one of self aggrandizement rather than self determination and caring for all. We seek to own instead of share, and look at disasters only as important when they land on our own doorsteps. In moral and conscious terms we are the antithesis to what the human in humanity should be imparting on the world. And yet, we wait patiently for "God" to save us. We even hook up large instruments looking for "God particles" to give us some meaning to life. And we are looking in the wrong places.

Is there hope for us? Will we collectively seek out the answers to the mysteries of the ages in the right place? Will Gnosis ever come? There are many references to the light, seeing the light, etc. in philosophic and religious writings down through the ages. Jesus Christ was described as "the light of the world." These are not references to be taken to mean that Christ is God, but to tell us he was the messenger to reveal how we can see the light that lives in all of us. Even our forefathers understood that and built Washington DC based on these mysteries and answers to finding that light in governance and the power and promise of man becoming God through the apotheosis. Of course, this means seeing all humans as equal and therefore is the reason why our world is now so out of balance. Our materialistic tendencies clouding the truth.

This is the key to hope for humanity. The simple action of "seeing the light" in ourselves and each other and in all that sustains us. And how is this done? Through simply seeing the world as it was meant to be seen beyond the distractions...a place where we live in harmony with nature, trust in its order, and see our interrelationship with it in nourishing our souls. This brings out our light, our divine selves, and brings us to Gnosis. The realization that we are the saviours we have been waiting for.For sure the human race is now being tested. We are now seeing the culmination of... more

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The spiritual journey of Gnostic Christians

With all of this talk about Atheism and Christianity, I thought it only fair to describe what I and some others believe in. For me, a once Evangelical Lutheran who attended church, sang in a choir as a soloist, and even at twelve years old thought of going to Seminary to become a minister because I was so blown away by the teachings and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it took quite a revelation for me to then understand "organized religion" and the subjugation of the mind and spirit it brings as I grew older. Through the years since I was a young girl, I have seen how religion can constrict the mind to the will of many for their own ends and actually put up barriers between the believer and their relationship with Christ. So, eventually I found a far more enlightening way to seek a closer relationship to the Christ without all of the middlemen driving fear and dogma into my heart and mind. I turned to Gnosticism, which I believe allows a greater freedom of heart, mind, and spirit.

To some however, the ancient beliefs of Gnostics will sound like something out a science fiction novel, but when you put it into perspective of how society works, it does on some level make sense. Gnostics believe that this material world we live in is an evil diversion set upon us by the Demiurge, or false god. In this material world we live in there are Aeons, or 'angels' (Jesus /Christ and Sophia being the first) who were non material spirits sent to lead us to gnosis, or knowledge of the divine light within all of us. In other words, to enlighten us to the fact that we are not shaped by the material world, but transcend it. Archons are seen as the 'demons' who are the gatekeepers of the material world we live in that provide the distractions to us attaining the knowledge to ascend back to the Pleroma, or universal God and who do all in their power to make this world a place that is opposite of what it should be. As I stated, equate that to the actual way our society works, and it does make some sense, though I myself do not use those terms in my daily life. However, analogies can be made.

In some extreme sects of Gnostics it was even believed that the human body in and of itself was an evil distraction and trap to the light within us devised to enslave the soul and true light. That for me is still debatable as I believe humans are divine as was Christ. It is believed that the only way to reach ‘gnosis’ or knowing is through inner reflection and through looking beyond the material distractions of the Demiurge. Gnostics in some sects were also known to be ascetic, though there is mention of the "Bridal Chamber" in the joining of man and woman, though not much if anything is known specifically of the ritual. It is believed by some as well that spiritual transcendence and seeing the light are reached through the joining of man and woman spiritually through the physical. Personally, I am more in favor of that latter ritual myself ;-).

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Weekly Spiritual Infusion

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Spun Out - DJ Documentary

Spun Out

An Offbeat Insight into the World of the DJ and the UK Dance scene.

This work examines the role of the DJ as a contemporary urban Shaman, rather than the commonly portrayed media image of an ego-inflated superstar.

In an ever-complex contemporary society, functioning with the primal vitality of a musician, entertainer and tribal initiator, the DJ fills those voids left by individual and collective disaffection and marginalisation.

The DJ has the innate ability, and opportunity, to guide us through an entitled rite of passage, a custom long-lost in Western culture.

This film is a visual and musical narration with its focus on the seminal role that the DJ has within modern civilization.

Economics and the mass market are considerations. Dance culture forces significant changes within commercial, fashion and creative trends, with the DJ an inspiring impulse behind young design.

The DJ is a re-animator of deep primal needs, exposing with pulses and rhythms the communal heartbeat of those that abandon the prohibitive conventions of daily life, and welcome the spirit of dance, music and fellowship.

In all culture dance is a fundamental medium of sharing and expression, with the DJ having the entitlement to incite movement in even the most passive and sedentary. By the transmutation of contemporary social dance into community, culture is born.

This film probes a practice that has the capacity to initiate movement on a collective scale, to stimulate political mass and inspire new social consciousness.

The DJ is a leader in the transient community of the moment, uniting a largely anonymous collective through rhythm, dance and groove, navigating this group by the positive validation of shared values and beliefs.

In modern cosmopolitan society young people perpetually search for community ritual and myth from a world otherwise holding little spiritual meaning. Consequently there is willingness to enter into collective participation and lucid, honest connection with peers similarly disillusioned by the self-absorbed cult of the individual.

A penetrating analysis of research that incorporates facets of ethnomusicology and dance, this film is artistically reconstructed to illustrate the work-life, practice and socio-political potential of the DJ within Western culture.Spun Out An Offbeat Insight into the World of the DJ and the UK Dance scene.... more